Snow White 2122

Introduction

This is for the Vocal "Tales Retold" Challenge. The music is "The Alien Song" by Milla Jovovich

The Prompt

Retell a classic fairy tale with a twist.

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Snow White 2122

Snow White had been keeping house for a group of miners, and one day she got a knock on the door and a lady gave her a "pick me up" potion to help her keep active and healthy.

She took a drink and passed out, her breathing very difficult and that's how the miners found her when they got home. They called the doctor, who told them it was serious, and then called an ambulance.

In hospital, she was placed in an aerated perspex module to keep her breathing and feed her nutrients. The doctors said she had had an anaphylactic reaction to the potion she had taken and were not sure when she would awake.

The miners came to see here but weeks turned into months turned into years and eventually, the miners came no longer.

The really odd thing was that while she was in the module, she didn't age.

2122

Snow White's eyes opened, She was awake and in some kind of glass coffin. She felt a rising panic but had to get out. She had tubes connected but carefully removed those and pushed the lid of her module open.

She got out, but her legs were weak.

Where the hell was she?

She thought that she must be in hospital, but the other modules were empty. She saw a name on the wall "Nostromo: Sleeping Pods 2122-11-12"

Was that a date on there, the sign was electronic, but it was 1972 when she went to sleep.

She needed to find someone. Walking down the corridor she saw what seemed to be a kitchen and there was a guy in there.

Snow White: "Where Am I?"

Guy: "Fuck, you've woken up, get in here have you seen anything?

Snow White: "I don't understand, the last thing I remember was having a drink at home in 1972 and it looks like the notice says it's 2122"

Guy: "It is 2122. We were all hospital cases and ended up in suspended animation on this ship, apparently as fodder and play for a particularly vicious life form. We don't know much about it, but it is vicious, spits acid, and uses the vents to try and hunt us down. There were twelve of us, but now there is just me and you, oh and a cat (don't ask where that came from)"

Snow White: "How long have you been awake? And how come you have managed to escape it?"

Guy: "A week, the others were more bothered about exploring the ship, and trying to radio home. We didn't know until it took two of us and on the bridge, we found a manifesto and a picture of what is hunting us. It posited that we should not last more than two days once we woke."

Snow White: "How can they be allowed to do that?"

Guy: "We all had no next-of-kin to contest this, and money can buy anything"

Snow White: "So we are here as just fodder?"

Guy: "Yep, but I reckon if we can get it to the main airlock, tempt it with some raw meat, we could close the inner doors and then eject it into space. Not sure how the owners would take that, but do you want to go for that?"

Snow White: "Far better than being eaten, and we got to save the cat as well"

Guy: "OK , that fridge has a load of raw meat, grab that and we'll go to the air lock, then get back to the bridge and wait"

Snow White picked up the bags of meat and went with the guy to the airlock. She dropped the meat and the guy shouted: "Run I can hear it coming". The vents were rattling increasingly violently.

They made the bridge and saw the creature devouring the meat on the cameras.

The guy pressed the switch to close the internal door, then Snow White threw the switch to open the airlock and see the creature sucked out into the vacuum of space.

The guy and Snow White hugged each other and the cat, but weren't sure what the reaction of the owners of the Nostromo would be, given that the fodder had destroyed their prize beast.